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Volume 14, Number 3

Issue 38, Fall 2002

Editor's Note
Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Controversies

Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos
Joseph Masco
Pioneering Spirit: An Interview with Ellen Spiro
Scott MacDonald
Historic Truths / Looking at Earth
John Martone
Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt
Julia Elyachar
"First Contact" and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process
Rebecca L. Stein
"The Taste Remains": Consumption, (N)ostalgia, and the Production of East Germany
Jonathan Bach
Mud for the Land
Nicholas Blomley

African Modes of Self-Writing Revisited

Obverse Denominations: Africa?
Ato Quayson
Toward a Critique of Consumer Imperialism
Paul Gilroy
The Subject in Africa: In Foucault's Footsteps
Bogumil Jewsiewicki
Contemplating Uncertainty
Jane I. Guyer
Afro-Pessimism's Many Guises
Bennetta Jules-Rosette
The Power of Words
Françoise Vergès
Historical Colonialism in Contemporary Perspective
Arif Dirlik
Postcolonial Performatives of Victimization
Kimberly Wedeven Segall
Keeping Africanity Open
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Social Imaginary, Ethics, and Methodological Individualism
Candace Vogler
On the Power of the False
Achille Mbembe

from the field

New Housing, New Dreams? Southern Delft Housing Scheme, Cape Town, South Africa, 1999
Anne-Maria Makhulu

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Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and Spring for the Institute for Public Knowledge by Duke University Press. The journal's full archives are available online at Dukejournals.org.

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